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You can get more out of your day by doing what you love and pursuing an interest that works collaboratively towards wealth creation. You can also get more out of your day by leveraging the skills that you already have and putting those to work within your wealth building plan. Now let’s look at a way to combine the two to get even more out of your day once again.

What Would You Love To Do?

Once upon a time people chose their careers in their teens, trained, and stayed in that career or line of work—often the very same job—for the entirety of their working lives. But that kind of life becomes very monotonous and draining. Not to mention the fact that what we are focusing on is getting out of the work for pay mentality and into the wealth creation mentality of letting your money work for you.

As we’ve discussed, though, you still have many, many options for investment and acquiring wealth. And so you have many options to explore that which interests you and use it as your basis for making money.

Two of the ways, which I alluded to in the intro for this post, of getting more out of your day are

• Working with the skills you have for a quick start, and

• Following your interests for a more enjoyable and sustainable journey to wealth

Now let’s take that a step further. Let’s think about the things you’ve always dreamed of doing—the skills and interests you want to have, but haven’t yet achieved.

The skills that you want to be pursuing are another excellent way to get more out of your day and to build wealth at the same time. When you pursue that long-held passion and build a new set of skills you harness the power of doing what you love, while you also build a whole new set of skills that you can capitalize for acquiring wealth. These can then either replace the old skills for something more interesting, or they can be combined with them. Building your future skillset and capitalizing on it creates an effective combination of interest, desire, time management, and wealth education that could very well be your personal key to sustainable success.

To Your Continued Financial Success

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2008

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Still in the interest of helping you help yourself more and make the most of all your days, here’s yet another thing to consider.

The Skills And Experience You Have Now

One of the ways that you can most efficiently use your time is to utilize the skills that you already have. In some ways this is similar to getting more out by going with what interests you. Hopefully you have built your skillset upon that which interests you the most. That will make it even easier to capitalize on all that you have readily available to you. If you have skills that aren’t really in your most desired area of interest, but that are readily usable still, it is definitely worth considering taking advantage of them now as you build into what you really want to be doing.

When you can utilize what is already familiar and second-nature you don’t have to spend time learning new skills before you can put them to work. Being that you are pursuing wealth you may be thinking you have no skills that apply, but that is probably not the case.

What have you learned?

Look at what you have done and what you have learned. Now look at the ways that Jamie McIntyre is showing you for making money. Look at how he shows you to create opportunity. What can you marry here?

I’ll give you just a couple of examples and let you take it from there. For instance, maybe you were a housepainter in college; maybe you have learned how to redecorate by revamping every place you’ve ever lived. Those sound like very good skills a real estate investor might want for do-it-yourself fix and flips.

Or maybe your skills have always been more book-oriented. Maybe bookkeeping and numbers are your strength. You’ll find those skills invaluable on the trades markets.

I doubt that there is anyone without a skill that can be captured and capitalized for building wealth and investing. If you look deep enough, if you are creative enough, you will find what you need within yourself. Make the most of what you know to make the most of your financial future!

To Your Continued Financial Success

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2008

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There are many suggestions for how you can get more out of your day for your ultimate success. There are many small time-management skills and tips and tricks to keep you focused and efficient. Doing what you love, for instance. But now I have to tell you something you probably don’t want to hear. Sometimes, to get more out of your day you have to…

Put More Into Your Day

There. I said it. Now you can hate me for a minute, but at some point it has to be said if we are to really look hard and fast upon our lives and improve them so that we can find the time to build wealth.

Even the most rewarding paths in life often require us to sacrifice and do things we don’t want to do. Sometimes that means pushing ourselves beyond our current limits to do what really matters—what really makes a difference in our lives. Sometimes we just have to stop planning to find time in the future, and make the time to see to our own financial needs—our needs of wealth!

Take on more to succeed

Whether you take something else away or just heap more upon yourself, you absolutely must take on more if you are to succeed and find financial wealth. What are some of the things you might need to take on? That depends on your needs. It might be:

• A wealth-building course or investment strategy instruction

• Research and reading to learn more about how to build wealth

• Exercise and meditation to clear and open the mind and body for money, richness, and success

• Smaller, broken-down tasks and projects (like investing, trading, buying properties)

At some point we all have to get down to action. We have to take steps and move forward. We have to take on more to have more so that we can eventually do less of what we have to do and more of what we love. There can’t always be an easy way to do this, but at least there is a real, definite way. We all have the ability to become rich!

To Your Continued Financial Success

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2008

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One of the leading barriers to wealth is the inability to get started. A lack of funding or seed money is one of the biggest problems people face. If you have read any of Jamie McIntyre’s materials, his free eBook for example, you probably know what I’m talking about. This goes back to one of the primary reasons people in wealthy nations are not wealthy themselves—people put everyone else first above their own financial wealth. The majority of people are not saving and do not make themselves a financial priority because there are too many other pressing obligations.

Part and parcel to this is the role that banks and established lending protocols play. As consumers we learn (from a very early age) that these are the entities that control the money. And without their help we are financially helpless. We become fearful of doing anything outside the financial norm because we need these institutions to survive.

That’s Precisely What They Want You To Think

They need you to think this way. Because if you do not then you will not need them. If you know how to create wealth of your own, if you take control of your financial future and make yourself a priority, you significantly limit the power and profit of these institutions. Because banks and lenders make money off the middle-class, not off the wealthy.

What winds up happening is that the middle-class live in fear of the established financial systems. They do not take effective steps to prioritize their financial lives because that might mean ignoring the financial powers that be. The trade-off, however, is that you will continue to be a slave to them and continue to be very low on your own list of priorities.

To clarify, lending institutions and banks and systems are not all bad. There is good they can do and good ways that you can utilize them to your own advantage. You do need to learn the difference, though, or you will forever live in fear and not live prosperously with yourself and your family and loved-ones as the pinnacle of your financial life.

To Your Continued Financial Success

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2008

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Much of wealth creation—the very foundation of achievable wealth-building—relies on principles of attraction; on like attracting like. We know that we attract more of the same with our wealthy thoughts, accumulation of money, accumulation of success, and also with the people and company we surround ourselves with. We know that when the people we associate with wallow in skepticism and negativity that we will do the same; but when the people we associate with share the same air of success and possibility and prosperity that we share we will attract all of those things in our own lives.

Unfortunately, given the present company that surrounds you, you may find it difficult to keep the kind of company that will propel you towards wealth. Very fortunately, however, you have the gift of the internet and access to an entire online community dedicated to wealth, financial empowerment, and personal success.

Accessing A Success-Oriented Online Community

There are many places where you can connect with like-minded individuals who will help you build that air of attraction necessary for building wealth. A few examples that come to mind include

• Wealth creation blogs. Many wealth builders maintain blogs online in an effort to further wealth creation among the interested community.

• Forums. There are also dedicated forums, both highly focused (such as the 21st Century Academy forum) and more general, dealing with general issues related to financial empowerment.

• Websites. This includes Jamie McIntyre’s 21st Century Academy website and also others of varying sorts maintained both by financial experts and individuals pursuing wealth creation.

• Social media sites. Social media websites are where all of this comes together—where like-minded people go to connect and find more of the same.

No doubt you could add to this list. More than anything, though, know that the company you need to be keeping is out there and can be easily accessed any time of the day from anywhere with an internet connection. When you feel the community around you bringing you down, log in and find the people with the potential to bring you back up. Make it a regular habit of hanging with a company of wealth developers and putting the laws of attraction to work in your favor.

To Your Continued Financial Success

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2008

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